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This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
Conservative foundations, multinational oil companies and a prescription drug maker were the most frequent sponsors of more than 100 expense-paid educational seminars attended by federal judges over a 4 1/2-year period, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.
Among the seminar titles were "The Moral Foundations of Capitalism," "Corporations and the Limits of Criminal Law" and "Terrorism, Climate & Central Planning: Challenges to Liberty & the Rule of Law."
Leading the list of sponsors of the 109 seminars identified by the Center were the conservative Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, The Searle Freedom Trust, also a supporter of conservative causes, ExxonMobil Corp., Shell Oil Co., pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and State Farm Insurance Cos. Each were sponsors of 54 seminars.
Other top sponsors included the conservative Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (51), Dow Chemical Co. (47), AT&T Inc. (45) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (46), according to the Center's analysis.
Sponsors pick up the cost of judges' expenses, which often include air fare, hotel stays and meals. The seminars in the Center's investigation took place from July 2008 through 2012.
The Center identified 185 federal district and appeals court judges who reported attending one or more of the seminars over the period, according to disclosure forms, or about 11 percent of the more than 1,700 federal judges in the United States.
Two schools -- George Mason University, located in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University based in Evanston, Ill., -- hosted more than two-thirds of the seminars.
Roughly three-fourths of the more than 800 sponsors listed in documents were individuals, including a number of judges who took trips, raising the possibility that they may have offset the cost of the sponsorships with their donations. Most of the remaining underwriters were companies and foundations.
Determining exactly how much was paid by which sponsor is difficult to determine -- amounts are not required to be reported under the disclosure rules.
Judicial conferences are billed as educational retreats intended to improve judges' understanding of the law and economics. Judges and seminar hosts say the conferences, which feature lectures and panel discussions, provide helpful information that refines their legal expertise.
But they've long drawn scrutiny for how they are funded and organized.
Since the 1990s, critics have complained that many of the privately funded conferences serve state and federal judges a steady dose of free-market, anti-regulation lectures that could influence judges' rulings from the bench.
Those concerns quieted in 2007, when the Judicial Conference of the United States, a group of senior circuit judges who oversee the U.S. Courts, implemented a policy requiring judges and seminar hosts to disclose information about the conferences.
Well-traveled jurists
The most-traveled judges, according to reports filed online by the judges, were U.S. District Judge Charles R. Wolle of the Southern District of Iowa and Chief Judge Thomas B. Bennett of the Northern District of Alabama Bankruptcy Court. Each reported attending nine seminars.
Wolle is a "senior status" judge, meaning he is semi-retired. He did not respond to requests for comment.
The next-most-traveled judges were:
- U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of the Central District of California and Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, covering the Western states, who each took eight trips;
- E. Grady Jolly, a federal appeals court judge for the 5th Circuit which includes Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael B. Kaplan of the District of New Jersey, who each took six trips;
- U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt of the Southern District of Texas, Chief Magistrate Judge Thomas J. Shields of the Southern District of Iowa and senior-status U.S. District Judge Frederic Block of the Eastern District of New York, each of whom took five trips.
O'Scannlain declined to comment for this story. In an email, Kaplan wrote that the "seminars offer a valuable opportunity for new judicial appointees to enhance their knowledge and skills in complex areas of the law," including economics.
Wolle, Real and O'Scannlain are all listed as seminar sponsors, though records do not indicate how much they contributed.
The Center identified instances where judges who attended seminars underwritten by certain firms and trade groups later issued rulings in the funders' favor.
EPA loses case
In April 2009, for example, Jolly traveled to Northwestern University to attend the "Criminalization of Corporate Conduct" seminar sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 13 other funders.
Last August, Jolly wrote the majority 2-1 opinion declaring that the Environmental Protection Agency broke the law when it rejected a Texas emissions cap generally supported by the fossil fuels industry.
Jolly, who did not respond to requests for comment, sided with two of the petitioners in the suit -- the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber.
Charles Geyh, an Indiana University law professor who specializes in judicial ethics, is skeptical that rulings are directly influenced by corporate sponsor of seminars, but noted, "in a cynic's view that would smack of corruption."
"Even if it has no effect in terms of the decisions judges make, the perception of influence matters a great deal," he says. "It looks as if [corporations] are buying influence, even if it's not true."
Another attendee of the 2009 "Criminalization of Corporate Conduct" seminar was U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier, the Eastern District of Louisiana jurist presiding over a high-profile BP civil trial, which is being held without a jury in New Orleans.
Barbier is in charge of considering whether BP owes billions of dollars in fines for gross negligence leading to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and spill. The disaster killed 11 people and contaminated a large swath of the Gulf Coast.
In 2011, Barbier dismissed a wrongful-death claim in a suit brought against ExxonMobil and Chevron USA by the widow of a worker who was exposed to radioactive materials found on the companies' equipment.
Barbier's ruling in favor of the oil companies came two years after he attended the corporate conduct seminar, funded in part by ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute, according to documents. The judge did not respond to requests for comment.
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Corporate U?
George Mason University's Law & Economics Center hosted 45 seminars while Northwestern University's Judicial Education Program hosted 29. A total of 136 federal judges reported attending conferences conducted by the schools during the 4 1/2-year period analyzed by the Center for Public Integrity.
The remaining top five conference hosts, including The Sedona Conference and the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), collectively organized 28 conferences.
The Koch Foundation and The Searle Freedom Trust supported most of the conferences organized by George Mason and Northwestern. The energy industry was a sponsor in roughly three-fourths of the conferences hosted by Northwestern.
Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, major supporters of conservative causes, and their foundations have given millions to George Mason University. As the Center recently reported, the George Mason University Foundation received $4.4 million in 2011 from the Charles Koch Foundation, making up 15 percent of its revenue that year.
The school is the top recipient of Koch foundation money since 1985. George Mason also houses several free market and libertarian research centers, including the Institute for Humane Studies, which received $3.7 million from the Koch foundations, and the Mercatus Center, whose board of directors includes Charles Koch.
Officials from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation did not return phone calls seeking comment for this report.
The Judicial Conference disclosure policy doesn't require seminar hosts to reveal how much donors contribute to conferences. But corporate-giving reports and nonprofit tax records shed some light on the costs.
Oil industry support
In 2011, for example, ExxonMobil reported giving $20,000 to George Mason specifically for its judicial training program. The oil company gave an additional $30,000 to the university's Law & Economics Center, which hosts the conferences. Between 2003 and 2007, the ExxonMobil Foundation gave the think tank $150,000.
ExxonMobil officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Another seminar funder, Donors Trust, gave George Mason's Law & Economics Center nearly $450,000 in general support in 2010. As the Center reported, Donors Trust helps conservative foundations and individuals give money anonymously to nonprofits that may take controversial positions.
A representative of Donors Trust declined to comment for this story.
The Searle Freedom Trust, a foundation advocating "economic liberty" which regularly donates to conservative groups like the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, contributed a combined $400,000 to George Mason's judicial education programs in 2010 and 2011.
The school conducted conferences on antitrust law as well as "Corporations and the Limits of Criminal Law," both funded by AT&T, BB&T, BP America, Cigna, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, FedEx Corp. and others.
"The Moral Foundations of Capitalism" was funded by the same group, and was the most popular George Mason conference, drawing at least 10 federal judges.
BP spokesman Scott Dean says the company has no record of ever directly contributing to the seminars but he did say BP gave the law school and the Law & Economics Center more than $37,000 between 2001 and 2008.
Seminars at Northwestern are hosted by the school's Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth. The think tank, according to its website, was founded in 2006 thanks to a "generous grant" from Daniel C. Searle, the late pharmaceutical industry executive.
In 2009, the foundation gave $200,000 to Northwestern's Searle Center for its judicial education program.
Another Northwestern seminar funder, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation -- a major supporter of conservative organizations, including the Heritage Foundation -- gave $210,000 to the Searle Center between 2008 and 2010.
Records show corporate sponsorship at Northwestern was highest from 2008 through 2010, when a man named Henry Butler -- now in charge of George Mason University's Law & Economics Center -- ran the Searle Center.
Daniel Rodriguez, dean of Northwestern University's School of Law, says corporate sponsorships at the school "ended the moment Butler left." Rodriguez, who became the dean of Northwestern's law school last year, says the school recently decided to terminate the programs. He says he's against corporate sponsorship of judicial seminars.
"These programs should be free from any real or perceived conflict of interest," he says.
Some history
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, advocacy groups and media outlets raised concerns about judges attending privately funded conferences conducted in vacation destinations like Arizona, Montana and Florida.
Critics claimed that the undisclosed trips created conflicts of interest and cast doubt on the ability of judges to decide cases without bias.
Seminars hosted by the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) attracted the most attention.
FREE, a Montana-based think tank championing "free-market environmentalism," drew criticism for its ideologically conservative seminars. In 2011, for example, FREE hosted "Terrorism, Climate & Central Planning: Challenges to Liberty & the Rule of Law."
Critics complained that judges spent their free time golfing, fishing and horseback riding at the conference's Montana resort location. They worried that judges were being wined, dined and entertained by FREE's funders, which included Koch Industries and Texaco Inc. (now part of Chevron Corp.).
Media scrutiny prompted members of Congress in 2000 to introduce legislation that would prohibit judges from accepting "anything of value in connection with a seminar." The bill, which died in committee, was opposed by the Judicial Conference, which claimed it restricted judges' free speech rights.
Similar legislation failed again in 2003.
In 2007, the Judicial Conference implemented a policy designed to provide "greater transparency" by setting up disclosure requirements for both judges and seminar hosts.
"Instead of banning anything," says Geyh, the policy "was a way to mollify those who recognized the perception problem without causing the ones who treat [the conferences] as a First Amendment issue to go ballistic."
Buying influence?
Even with the new policy, the seminars still have critics.
"These seminars are taking place because large corporate interests are hoping to influence the outcome of cases involving themselves or likeminded entities," says Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, a liberal organization that first raised concerns about judicial education conferences in a 1993 report titled "Justice for Sale."
Russell Wheeler, former deputy director of the Federal Judicial Center, an education and research agency for the federal courts, says it's possible that funders could be truly dedicated to improving judges' understanding of the law.
But, he says, "You've got to be pretty naïve to believe that."
"It's the funders that create the problem," says Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics. "The money comes from interests that have matters before the courts, and they'd like to have those matters settled in their favor."
Many of the seminars are conservative in nature, especially those hosted by George Mason. But there are a few exceptions. A June 2010 conference sponsored by the Open Society Institute, a foundation founded by liberal investor George Soros, focused mainly on human rights law.
(The Center for Public Integrity has received funding from Soros' Open Society Foundations.)
Events hosted by the Sedona Conference, a nonprofit whose seminars address legal issues like antitrust law and intellectual property, have been funded primarily by law firms.
Speaking from the right
According to The Center for Public Integrity's analysis, the person who spoke at more judicial conferences than any other was Butler, a professor and prominent conservative formerly of Northwestern and now executive director of George Mason's Law & Economics Center.
He has taught judicial seminar courses with titles like "Economic Thinking" and "Economics of Insurance." A former Republican candidate for Congress -- he lost a 1992 bid -- Butler was a "Koch Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics" at the University of Kansas.
Butler's resume cites his "professional affiliations" with the conservative Federalist Society and the Mont Pelerin Society, which decries society's loss of freedoms "fostered by a decline of belief in private property and the competitive market."
Butler declined to be interviewed for this story. In response to emailed questions about George Mason's judicial seminars, he wrote, "You seem to have a well-established theme to your story, accordingly we don't see any advantage in collaborating with you."
Daniel Polsby, dean of the George Mason University School of Law, also declined to answer questions for this story other than to say: "We're very proud of the activities and programs of the Law & Economics Center" via email.
Another frequent seminar instructor is Terry L. Anderson, president of the Property and Environment Research Center, a conservative think tank "dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets."
Anderson, a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, has regularly led "Free Market Environmentalism" lectures at conferences hosted by both George Mason and Northwestern.
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Green energy's 'false promise'
In January 2011, Anderson was one of four lecturers who spoke at George Mason's "Advanced Institute on Environmental Economics" conference, which was funded in part by ExxonMobil, BP America and Shell Oil.
The other three speakers were Andrew Morriss, co-author of the book "The False Promise of Green Energy"; Robert K. Fleck, an economics professor who has received thousands of dollars in research grants from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation; and Jason Johnston, a former fellow with the Koch-funded, Anderson-led Property and Environment Research Center and a critic of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"I don't express views" during lectures, says Anderson. He says his talks are based strictly on economic analysis. "None of my lectures are aimed at changing any judge's opinion" about a case before them in court.
George Mason law professor Todd J. Zywicki, another regular judicial program speaker, has taught judges about issues like mortgage markets and consumer credit.
He is a senior scholar at the school's conservative Mercatus Center, and has ties to the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is "dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty." Zywicki did not respond to a request for comment.
George Mason "is known to stage conferences that have a conservative economic perspective," says Gillers, the NYU law professor.
One frequent attendee of George Mason's judicial seminars, Judge Bennett of Alabama bankruptcy court, told the Center "I'm not going to be snowed by anybody's presentation." He said he finds the seminars "infinitely invaluable."
"You can accumulate information much more quickly than if you sit in your office and read stuff," he says.
Bennett dismisses criticism of George Mason's judicial conferences -- even though he acknowledges that they often feature conservative voices.
"I believe they put on a fairly balanced program," he says, noting that he doesn't pay attention to who funds the conferences. "I've been to George Mason seminars where they've had people who are not conservative. It's all in the eye of the beholder."
Stacked panels?
Northwestern's 2009 seminar titled "Criminalization of Corporate Conduct" included a speaker panel that was very corporate-friendly -- something George Mason's Henry Butler openly acknowledged during his presentation summing up the day's events.
Butler noted "a question can be raised" about the panels' balance and "do we have enough people here that are representing the prosecutor's perspective." (His remarks are posted on YouTube.) "And I certainly can plead guilty to that accusation."
"On the other hand," he continued, "I have to explain to you that we've had difficulty in the past getting the U.S. attorneys to participate in these programs."
The December 2010 "Climate Change Litigation" session hosted by George Mason's Law & Economics Center was sponsored in part by BP America, ExxonMobil and Shell Oil and featured four speakers.
Two were attorneys who have represented corporate clients like Koch Industries and ExxonMobil. A third speaker, Johnston, the former Property and Environment Research Center fellow, spent part of his presentation criticizing the American civil courts system for making American companies less competitive on the international stage.
Butler, who moderated the panel, acknowledged the imbalance as he introduced a last-minute replacement for the fourth panelist.
"Eric Mayer is going to be pro-public nuisance, climate-change litigation cases, and the other three are basically going to express some skepticism," Butler said in his introduction, identifying Mayer, a lawyer who has represented plaintiffs as well as corporate defendants.
The announcement drew laughs from panelists and audience members.
"This may seem unbalanced," Butler continued, "but Eric is not daunted by this challenge at all."
Donor names disappear
The "transparency" policy regarding judicial trips may be weak, but the names of the corporations, foundations and individuals that pay for the conferences at least are available to the public.
Now, even that bit of sunshine is clouding over.
In 2012, George Mason's Law & Economics Center began listing "xyz corp.," as a sponsor before listing itself as the only donor on official disclosure documents. However, the think tank does provide a list of donors on its website.
The 2007 Judicial Conference policy allows such reporting if the support comes from general revenues or from endowments or gifts "not raised for the particular educational program or for the purpose of educating judges."
Geyh, the Indiana University law professor, says the policy enables conference hosts to shield their donors and make it tough for judges to identify potential conflicts before attending seminars.
"It does raise transparency issues," he says. "It strikes me as some semantic game-playing with the rules."
John Dunbar contributed to this report.


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Tom Hanks: Arts for Humanity Gala with Elie Wiesel!
Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson meet up with political activist Elie Wiesel at the 2012 Arts for Humanity Gala held at the New York Public Library on Wednesday (October 17) in New York City.
The 56-year-old actor was honored by The Elie Wiesel Foundation at the event and joked that he still had some overdue books from 1977 that he needed to turn in to the library.
Tom's son Colin Hanks, Blythe Danner, and Christiane Amanpour also attended the event.
FYI: Tom is dressed up in a suit by Tom Ford while Rita is wearing a dress by Tom Ford.
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Materials science pioneer honored
PORTLAND, Ore.—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientist responsible for major paradigm shifts that have repeatedly redefined modern materials science, American scientist John Werner Cahn, recently received the Kyoto Prize in advanced technologies in San Diego.
Born in Cologne, Germany, Cahn immigrated to the U.S., where he made his first paradigm-shifting discovery at General Electric's research lab (Schenectady, N.Y.), solving a long-standing problem in metallurgy with John Hilliard. The resulting Cahn-Hilliard Equation enabled designers to specify the properties required of a metal, then calculate the methods needed to create it. Before this paradigm shift metallurgical breakthroughs required long trial-and-error methodology.
Cahn became a materials science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1964, then joined the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) in 1977. In 1982, together with Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman, Cahn again contributed a paradigm-shifting contribution to materials science by authoring the seminal paper on quasicrystals, a promising new material that is still a hot semiconductor research topic today because of its novel low-temperature conductivity properties.
Cahn was honored in Japan on Nov. 9, 2011, receiving a 20-karat-gold medallion and $625,000. The ceremony and gala is being repeated this week for the U.S. audience, March 20-22, in San Diego.


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The Axis of Awesome, Australia's Most Awesomest Musical Comedy Group, take you through how to write a love song.
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On May 31st the corner of West 18th Street and 10th Avenue received a colorful new addition to the Edison Properties billboard. Untitled is the latest edition on HIGH LINE BILLBOARD, a series of commissions by High Line Art for the large billboard next to the park at West 18th Street. It was installed by acclaimed Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, the artists behind the photography magazine Toilet Paper.
Invited by High Line Art to present a work on the billboard, the artists selected an untitled image featuring ten fingers mysteriously popping out of a blue velvet background. The surreal image both celebrates and parodies the deceptive power of commercial photography and the seduction of advertising. The artists' billboard marks the first large-scale public artwork in the world as part of their publication Toilet Paper.
Watch the installation process of the billboard with a time lapse video created by Ferrari.
The billboard will remain on view through Friday, June 29. Thanks to in-kind support from Edison Properties, the owner of the property on which the billboard sits.
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Maggie Ann Roland, 28
Maggie Ann Roland, 28, of Blackfoot, passed away Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at the Lifecare Center in Idaho Falls, from complications of Prader-Willis Syndrome.
Maggie was born August 22, 1982 in Twin Falls, Idaho, to Duane and Carla Irene Hoffhine Roland. She moved with her family to Blackfoot before she turned one and has resided in Blackfoot since. She attended school in Blackfoot, graduating from Blackfoot High School in 2001.
She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was happy to be able to attend the temple on June 5, 2010.
Maggie has worked at Southeast Idaho Developmental Center since 2005.
Maggie loved horses and learned to ride. She was able to participate in the Special Olympics, winning two blue ribbons in the horseback riding event.
Maggie was a special young lady with varied interests. She enjoyed reading, scrapbooking, playing family and computer games. She enjoyed putting puzzles together, but because of her illness, she always started a puzzle from inside and worked to the outside. She loved spending time with her family, especially her nieces and nephews.
Maggie is survived by: her parents, Duane and Carla Irene Roland, of Blackfoot; two brothers, Kurt (Jodi) Roland, James Miller, II, both of Idaho Falls; three sisters, Laura Wessel, of Fort Hall, Cami (Byron) Young, Kristin (Mike) Bybee, both of Idaho Falls, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by: one sister, Nichole Miller, her grandmother, Irene Hoffhine and grandparents, James I. and Wilma Roland.
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BARCELONA—The hottest showcase for new technology at this year's Mobile World Congress wasn't in the event's cavernous exhibition halls. It was actually about two miles away, at an affiliated show for startups and venture capitalists.
In a makeshift array of stages, geodesic tents and seats made from beer crates, organizers of the spinoff gathering titled Four Years From Now, or 4YFN, played host to an array of mobile-related startups with products like GPS for motorcycle helmets, and an application for Google Inc.'s computer-enabled...


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MADRID (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal had taken anti-inflammatories and undergone intensive physiotherapy to alleviate a lower back problem and still planned to compete in Buenos Aires next month, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
The world number one had tests on the injury, which wrecked his chances in Sunday's Australian Open final, in Barcelona on Tuesday followed by the treatment before returning to his native Mallorca to rest, the spokesman said in an emailed statement.
"Next Monday he will have further tests to evaluate the progress of his recovery and to see if he can gradually start training again," he added.
Nadal still intends to play in the clay event in Buenos Aires starting on February 10, followed by the tournament in Rio de Janeiro, also on clay, and the hard court Masters events at Indian Wells and Miami.
Nadal lost to Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka in the Australian Open final, which prevented him drawing level on 14 grand slam singles titles with American Pete Sampras, three short of record holder and great rival Roger Federer.
He needed lengthy treatment at the start of the second set, hit back to win the third but Wawrinka eventually captured his debut slam with a 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3 triumph.
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Author Mary Biddinger Featured in Point Park University Poetry Series Thursday, October 1, 2009
Mary Biddinger will be at Point Park University as the next featured artist in a series of poetry readings presented by Point Park. Biddinger's reading will be on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Lawrence Hall Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
Mary Biddinger is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007) and the chapbook Saint Monica (forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press). Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, diode, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, North American Review, Passages North, Third Coast, and many other journals. She is the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry, co-editor-in-chief of Barn Owl Review, and director of the NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She teaches at The University of Akron.
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ADEN, Yemen – Security officials say two people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes between Islamists and separatists in southern Yemen, as tens of thousands protested in the capital to mark the second anniversary of the nation's uprising.
Members of the Islamist Islah party and southerners calling for independence fought in Aden during a protest marking the start of the uprising that ousted longtime autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh. Security officials say both sides fired live ammunition at each other, killing a bystander and a 25 year-old separatist.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene says security officials also fired in the air to disperse the crowd on Sunday.
Protesters nationwide took to the streets Monday to demand Saleh be tried for the killing of protesters during the uprising against his rule.


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Minor, Kimbrel pitch Braves to 1-0 win
ATLANTA -- Mike Minor was not too impressed with his performance even after pitching the best game of his career.
"I kind of just dodged them, I guess," he said. "To me, it wasn't one of my best starts, but on paper it looks good."
Minor held Colorado hitless for six innings, Craig Kimbrel earned the first four-out save of his career and the Atlanta Braves beat the Rockies 1-0 on Wednesday night.
Minor (8-10) lost a no-hit bid in the seventh when Jordan Pacheco led off with a single. Pacheco stole second, but was stranded when Minor struck out Ramon Hernandez swinging, Chris Nelson on a foul tip and Andrew Brown looking.
Minor allowed one hit, four walks and struck out seven. The left-hander threw 63 of 108 pitches for strikes. He left the game when Tyler Pastornicky hit for him in the seventh.
Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez thought Minor did a fine job in holding Colorado, which began the night second in the NL with a .272 batting average, hitless through six innings.
"They're not schleppers out there, and we've had some pretty good ball games pitched against them, with Tommy (Hanson) and Mike Minor and obviously (Kris) Medlen," Gonzalez said. "They swing the bats. They scare you a little bit."
The Braves made it 1-0 in the fourth off Alex White (2-8) when Chipper Jones led off with a single, moved to second when Freddie Freeman walked and scored when shortstop Josh Rutledge threw errantly to first after recording one out on Brian McCann's fielder's choice grounder.
Atlanta began the night with a two-game lead over St. Louis and a 3½-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL wild-card race. The Braves had lost 11 of 17.
Jose Constanza drew a leadoff walk in the seventh for Atlanta off Matt Ottavino, stole second and moved to third on Pastornicky's sacrifice bunt. Matt Reynolds and William Harris got the last two outs with strikeouts of Michael Bourn and Martin Prado.
White, who was facing the Braves for the first time in his career, allowed two hits, one unearned run and four walks with no strikeouts in four innings.
Atlanta continued to struggle offensively despite second baseman Dan Uggla and McCann returning to the lineup. Uggla was benched the last three games with a .208 batting average, and McCann missed the last three games after taking a cortisone shot in his right shoulder.
Uggla and McCann combined to go 0 for 7. The Nos. 2-4 hitters -- Prado, Jason Heyward and Jones -- each left three runners on base, but the Braves did manage to improve to 6-40 this year when scoring two or fewer runs.
Atlanta had lost 11 of 17 when scoring two runs or less.
Harris pitched the final 1 1-3 innings for Colorado, helping the Rockies' bullpen run their streak to 15 consecutive scoreless innings in the four-game series.
Facing Eric O'Flaherty in the eighth, Dexter Fowler walked with one out and advanced to third on Rutledge's single. After O'Flaherty struck out Carlos Gonzalez and Rutledge stole second off Kimbrel, the Atlanta closer struck out Pacheco to end the threat.
For Rockies manager Jim Tracy, Gonzalez's strikeout was a turning point.
"I thought we sent the best hitter we have in that clubhouse, and he ended up striking him out," Tracy said. "We got some people on base, but when you get them on and your opportunity is there, with the way the game is unfolding and the way the other side is pitching, you have to seize the opportunity."
Kimbrel earned his 33rd save in 36 chances. In the ninth, he struck out Hernandez and pinch-hitter Tyler Colvin. After pinch-hitter Jason Giambi walked, Wilin Rosario struck out to end the game.
"I've been wanting to do that all year," Kimbrel said of his four-out appearance. "It's definitely a little different. It's definitely something I want to do again."
Minor, who singled in the second, improved to 2-3 with a 2.98 ERA in his last seven starts. In his first career start against Colorado on May 5 in Denver, Minor allowed 10 hits and eight runs but received no-decision in the Braves' 13-9 win.
"My walks didn't hurt me this time, and I didn't give up a home run," Minor said. "That's always good."
Notes: Pacheco pushed his hitting streak to 14 games, during which he's hitting .365 with two homers and eight RBIs. ... Constanza, who won the International League batting title with a .314 average, went 0 for 1 with two walks. ... Foley's New York Pub & Restaurant will honor Jones by renaming itself Chipper's from Sept. 7-9 -- when the Braves visit New York for the last time this season -- and serve 10 types of chips. ... Jones, who is retiring after the season, went 1 for 3 and needs one hit to tie Bill Buckner for 60th place on the career list with 2,715.


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Get Cozy with Counting! 11 Fun Number Activities
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Broken Age from indie developer Double Fine made records when in 2012, it surpassed its Kickstarter goal of $400,000 to raise a then eye-popping $3.3 million. The marquee status of Tim Schafer, creater of Grim Fandango, helped Broken Age smash all expectations, and propelled the crowd-funding model for game development into the mainstream. Needless to say, the game has generated intense anticipation among adventure gamers, and the wait to play Broken Age is nearing an end.
Act I of this two Act game is to be released on January 28th, although Kickstarter backers gain access a full two weeks early on January 14th. As for Act II, Double Fine has left the date indeterminate, stating only that it will be later in 2014.
About the Game
Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure following a young boy and girl leading parallel lives. The girl is to be sacrificed by her village to a monster, but she decides to take matters into her own hands. Meanwhile, on a spaceship, the boy lives a solitary existence with only a computer AI, that functions as his virtual mother, for company. He longs for more. "Adventures ensue."
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Double Fine created a bit of controversy when it tried to place a review embargo until January 28th, but quickly back-tracked, citing in a Twitter post - "We decided to go ahead and lift the review embargo for Broken Age. Too much excitement."
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ASUS Transformer Prime owners who have experienced GPS issues with their tablet have been to hell and back. After several botched attempts at trying to fix weak signal issues with software updates, ASUS has moved forward with an alternative correction method. A week ago, word got out that ASUS was working on some sort of antenna dongle for the Transformer Prime. The dongle was said to be "very minimalistic," and "flush fit with the bottom of the unit." Today, we learned that is not quite the case.
Land of Droid has managed to score some pictures of the GPS dongle for the ASUS Transformer Prime that show just how "minimalistic" the dongle really is. Used with the Transformer Prime's 40 pin connector, the GPS dongle is a bar shaped attachment that's nearly as long as the Prime in landscape mode, and looks to be maybe an inch or two thick. It looks huge. And because of how it attaches to the Prime, it can't be used with the keyboard dock or while it's charging. The pictures of the GPS dongle found below are said to be of an engineering build, but won't change much from the final product.
There's two ways to look at the GPS dongle for the Transformer Prime. It's great that ASUS is committed to their customers. They've worked long and hard to come up with a solution to the Prime's GPS woes, and they plan on giving it out for free. On the other hand, it feels like the situation may have spun out of control.
ASUS made a poor decision in build materials and design which ended up affecting the performance of the final product. Instead of offering extended warranties and ridiculously huge GPS attachments, ASUS could have stopped production and recalled the Prime until things were straightened out.
Then again, plenty of Prime owners couldn't be happier with their purchase, so maybe ASUS did the right thing in keeping the tablet on shelves. What do you think? Has ASUS handled the Transformer Prime's GPS problems well, or is the GPS dongle the straw that broke the camel's back? Let us know what you think in the comments.


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Daxter Walkthrough and Guide
Welcome to the Daxter Walkthrough where our team of contributors will help you work through the game via a step-by-step tutorial. A Gamewise walkthrough aims to take you all the way through the game to 100% completion including unlockable quests and items.
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The Orange Police Department is investigating a series of gas thefts that the victim believes cost the convenience store close to $4000 and almost 1000 gallons of diesel fuel.
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The NAU Centennial Forest is Northern Arizona University's research, teaching, and demonstration forest -- a cooperative venture between Northern Arizona University and the Arizona State Land Department.
In 1959, the Arizona State Land Department designated 4,000 acres of forest land as an "outdoor laboratory" for the School of Forestry at Arizona State College in Flagstaff (now Northern Arizona University). The research and education programs initiated by the designation helped establish the school as one of the top rated forestry institutions in the country.
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We've gotten hold of the Sears lookbook for the upcoming Spring 2013 season, ranging from clothes to footwear, and handbags and other accessories. As expected, most of the prices in the Sears lookbook are well within every budget fashionista's price range. Brands featured include Kardashian Kollection (my spellchecker seems to grimace ever-so-tightly whenever I type this one), Joe by Joe Boxer, Canyon River Blues, and more. We've got photos for y'all after the jump.
Sears Lookbook for Spring 2013
Sears Spring 2013 Clothes
Signature animal prints from the Kardashian women, nautical stripes and tangerines from Canyon River Blues, and chic workwear from Metaphor. Also, a pink summer awaits us, thanks to activewear spring styles from Everlast and daily wear from Joe by Joe Boxers… all in Barbie's all-time favorite hue.
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Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1915, died in Caloundra, Queensland, in 2000.
Without any formal art training she began painting wildflowers in 1950. She published 'Queensland Wildflowers' with Jacaranda Press in 1959, and went on to publish and retail wildflower prints and stationary.
Kathleen McArthur was chosen as the Sunshine Coast Daily's 'Sunshine Coast Citizen of the Century' in 2002. The selection panel acknowledged the decision as controversial. However they felt that Kathleen's passionate commitment, meticulous research and articulate advocacy contributed so significantly to the preservation of the environment that she fully deserved this honoured place in the region's history. Papers reported that she had won the Citizen of the Century award as she had not only fought and won may significant battles for our waterways, beaches, wildlife and landscapes, but played a pivotal role in educating the public to an awareness of environmental fragility.
Kathleen late of Caloundra died in 2000 at the age of 84 having devoted many years to saving the environment. She was one of the small group of people, together with poet Judith Wright, who founded the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland in 1962. She was involved in many campaigns including pushing for preservation of what is now Cooloola National Park and was champion of Pumicestone Passage, successfully lobbying for its inclusion in the Register of the National Estate. Her passion, knowledge and commitment help to ensure that development did not entirely obliterate the natural charm of the sunshine coast region.
She was not only a conservationist but an artist, author, educator and activist. One of her passions was wildflowers which featured in several of her publications.
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Fall Prospect Camp
Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016
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Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 16
For high school sophomores, juniors and seniors
The Bluffton Fall Prospect Camp will include a pro-style workout: a timed running of the 60, defensive evaluation and a simulated game. Campers will also have a period of defensive instruction prior to the simulated game. The duration of the game will depend on the number of pitchers that attend the camp. Each participant will have the opportunity to be evaluated at his primary position, and secondary position by availability. Players who indicate pitching as their primary position will be guaranteed to pitch during the simulated game. Players who indicate pitching as a secondary position will be evaluated in a bullpen session (if unable to pitch during the simulated game).
About the camp
The Fall Prospect Camp is an important prospect identification tool for the Bluffton University baseball program. Since its inception, several campers have committed to play baseball at Bluffton. While serving to identify top prospects, it also allows the prospects to spend a day with our program and gain valuable exposure to our staff and players, while performing on Memorial Field, one of the best fields in the region.
All players are encouraged to bring their own BBCOR bats, glove, catcher's equipment and any other equipment they may use. Baseball pants are required. All participants will receive a camp shirt and an evaluation written by the Bluffton University baseball coaching staff.
Cost: $78. Register online below. To ensure that you receive a camp shirt, please pay via
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PennySaverUSA.com Encourages Users to Submit a Photo of Their Christmas Decorations for a Chance to Win With Their Photo Submission to the Online Contest
BREA, CA--(Marketwire - December 21, 2010) - Harte-Hanks (NYSE: HHS) PennySaverUSA.com wraps up this year's online contests with their last PennySaver of the Month contest, calling readers to submit photos of their Christmas trees and Christmas decorations. The online contest entries will be judged by the PennySaverUSA.com team and the top three photos will be awarded cash prize of $150, $75 and $50 respectively.
The online classifieds site and frequent sponsor of online contests has held contests featuring a variety of themes to engage all participants. Online contest themes have included cutest pets, best Halloween costumes, favorite PennySaver memories and more. The prizes for the online contests have been plentiful and have ranged from popular electronic items, video game consoles, gift cards and cash to the lucky contest winners who participate.
For the December online contest, PennySaverUSA.com calls contest participants past and present to submit photos of their Christmas trees, their decorated mantles, their Christmas lights, or any holiday displays. Only one photo per household will be accepted and entered into the judging round of the online contest where photos will be evaluated for content and quality. Winners will be announced following the end of the online contest.
"Each month, we've launched an online contest requesting something different from our readers to get everyone to participate in something that pertains to them and their family. We're excited to see all the beautiful Christmas decorations from our readers and hope that we find some amazing photos," said Loren Dalton, President of PennySaverUSA.com.
The online contest runs now through the end of the December 2010 and the winners will be announced in the New Year. For more information about the online contest, visit http://pennysaverusa.com/contest.
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Drug Fight Reaches Critical Stage as Teen Painkiller Abuse Soars
With 10 percent of teens surveyed admitting they abuse over the counter medications, the Truth About Drugs program, supported by the Church of Scientology, offers hope to stem problem
According to a recent University of Michigan nationwide survey of 138,000 adolescents, one in every 30 teens uses painkillers to get high.
Painkillers are covered extensively in the Truth About Drugs, drug education and prevention initiative supported by the Church of Scientology, which includes a series of 13 educational booklets. Drawing on 25 years of experience in drug prevention, the booklets effectively communicate to teens and young adults the harsh reality of drug abuse.
The series includes an overview and 12 additional booklets, one on each of the most commonly abused drugs, three of which specifically targets this issue: painkillers, prescription drugs, and Ritalin. There are also individual booklets on each of the following drugs of choice: marijuana, alcohol, Ecstasy, cocaine, crack cocaine, crystal meth, inhalants, heroin and LSD. Each provides facts and statistics, describes how drug work, and covers the mental and physical short-term and long-term effects the drug creates.
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From reading the booklets, students realize that some of the unexplained mental and physiological changes they have experienced came from the drugs they have used. They are often surprised to find how much they didn't know about various drugs.
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Irish family history researchers should explore the holdings and collections of some of the universities with an Irish connection or tradition. For example, Villanova University houses the McGarrity collection, which is a treasure trove for those of us whose genealogical research includes Ireland's 20th century struggle for independence (and also for Co. Tyrone researchers). I know Irish genealogy researchers who have found valuable materials at Seton Hall's library.
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Materials: Handmade of metal and wood. Subtended by silk.
Hand painted with flowers and Chinese characters.
Size: From top of the top red wood piece to the bottom of the red wood piece on the base is 33cm. The maximum width is 24cm. (The height measurement does not include the tassel or the metal hanging hook)
Colour: Pink
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, should meditate on the Vulcan proverb quoted by Spock in "Star Trek VI": "Only Nixon could go to China."
Spock's point was that Captain Kirk, who was the most anti-Klingon adversary in the Federation, would actually prove to be the toughest -- and most effective -- negotiator in the peace accords with the Klingons.
The phrase "Nixon goes to China" first entered the political lexicon when President Richard Nixon, who made his career as a rabid anti-communist, extended the hand of friendship to communist China. This became one of the greatest achievements of the Nixon presidency.
A similar feat could happen at the nexus of anti-immigration forces in the GOP, the undeniably powerful bloc of Hispanic voters that is up for grabs, and a leading contender for the vice presidency, Marco Rubio.
Rubio's name is on the top of virtually every political pundit's list to be nominated as the GOP's vice presidential candidate. If he were elected at age 41, he would have the most rapid rise in Republican politics since Nixon became vice president at age 39.
Rubio is a bilingual Cuban-American from Florida with an impeccable conservative voting record. The far right adores him, particularly for his firm stance against both comprehensive immigration reform that would give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and the Dream Act.
Republican strategists predict they will need 40% of the Latino vote to defeat President Obama. A Fox News poll released last week found that none of the GOP presidential candidates would get more than 14% of the Hispanic vote in November.
About a third of those polled said they would be "more likely" to vote Republican if a Latino were on the ticket. There's a joke making the rounds in Washington these days: "Who do you think will be the Republican nominee for president as Marco Rubio's running mate?"
What Republicans who support Rubio as vice president don't grasp is that support for immigration reform is a litmus test for Latino voters. When I ran the fastest-growing Hispanic-owned business in the U.S., a key part of our success was our ability to connect at a deep, authentic level with Hispanic consumers. Picking Rubio as a running mate to connect with Hispanics is like trying to connect to Jewish voters with someone who is Jewish and speaks Hebrew -- but openly hostile to Israel and friendly to Iran. The choice is absurd and reflects a deep-seated ignorance.
The GOP should look elsewhere for a leader who connects to Latinos. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, for example, who was born in Cuba to parents who weren't U.S. citizens and is therefore unable to join the GOP ticket, does, however, provide a clear model for such a person.
Fleeing Cuba for Miami when she was 7, she eventually went on to become the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress. Today, she is the most senior Republican woman in the House, chairing the powerful Committee on Foreign Affairs. She is one of the strongest supporters of Israel in Congress, staunchly pro-life and a fiscal conservative, but has bucked her own party -- and Mitt Romney, whom she endorsed -- with her commitment to protecting the equal rights of gays and lesbians, and especially her commitment to comprehensive immigration reform.
Ros-Lehtinen embodies much that is lacking in Rubio (who, ironically, was an intern in her office while in law school). Take, for example, her reaction to the case of Daniela Pelaez, who came to Miami at age 4 from Colombia with her family on a tourist visa, which they overstayed. She will soon graduate from high school, No. 1 in her class of 820, with plans to be a heart surgeon. Her brother is a U.S. citizen serving in the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, and her father is a U.S. resident. Daniela Pelaez's application for residency was denied.
Ros-Lehtinen intervened, asking U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement to block the girl's deportation, which the agency did, for two years. In the meantime, Ros-Lehtinen continued to urge Congress to approve the Dream Act, which she co-sponsored, working beyond the situation at hand to ensure a comprehensive way of dealing with the many children out there just like Pelaez. Rubio, for his part, met with Pelaez for a photo op in Washington, assuring the girl that he hoped a solution could be found. He maintains that the proposed legislation is a "wrong way of doing the right thing" -- yet offers not even a hint of a real, alternative solution.
Rubio is referred to as the Michael Jordan of politics. But you don't score points sitting on the bench, basking in the approbation of the hard right, oblivious to the crowd of could-be supporters in the bleachers behind you, unable to muster, even, a faint cheer for your positions on what really matters to them.
You score points by leading. And that is where Rubio seems to fail -- so far. Rubio's "China" is immigration; by shirking this issue and standing fast to supporters who will brook no compromise, he demonstrates cowardice.
Marco Rubio has a tremendous chance to journey to "China" in the face of the volatile backlash that such a journey would provoke from the far right. He has the chance to delve into an issue with no easy answers -- with the smarts, mettle and energy that he surely possesses, the same way Ros-Lehtinen approaches her own public service.
And if Rubio is going to lead the Republican ticket to victory one day, he needs to embrace the fact that the GOP has no demographic future without Latino support.
An earlier version of this post appeared on CNN.


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|Peter Trevelyan
History of Art
year: 2017
size: 300 x 230 x 55 mm
media: 0.5mm graphite, found book
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Exhibitions by Peter Trevelyan
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Drawing and sculpture are entwined in Peter Trevelyan's practice with three-dimensional works 'drawn' in fine pencil lead, paper, plastic or other media. An investigation of the role of drawing is at the heart of his work. As he has said: "A drawing is a plan, a preliminary visualisation of something to be undertaken in the physical world. Drawing is an ancient technology, a system for postulating, organising and mapping information about the physical world and manipulating it in order to change or affect that world."
Patient careful craftsmanship, the slow meticulous creation of form through the assemblage of repeated elements and an interest in the architecture of space are also characteristics of his elegant, refined works, which speak to the world's structures but also to fragility and ethereality - both practically and metaphorically.
Forged from in his interest in the history of mathematics Trevelyan's pieces, large and tiny, transit possibilities from antiquity through utopian architecture to future focused nanotechnology.
"Exquisite enough in themselves, it is once the viewer becomes cognisant of the materials employed that the response can only be one of astonishment." Peter Dornauf, eyecontactsite.com
Peter Trevelyan graduated with a BFA from the Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury in 2000. He completed his MFA at Massey University's School of Fine Arts in 2008 and a PhD in 2014. His work is in public and private collections in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.
Peter has been exhibiting since 2000 and has built up an impressive exhibition history which has include several major temporary public art works. Recent public exhibitions include Solo, Dowse Art Museum 2014-15; The Euclid Set, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2014; The Crystal Line, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2014; Submission, Engine Room Gallery, Massey University, Wellington, 2014; Survey II, National Library Wellington, 2012; Tenuous, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua 2012; Selected proofs, Sofa Gallery, University of Canterbury 2012; Prospect, City Gallery Wellington, 2011; The light fantastic, City Gallery Wellington, 2010; The mimetic brotherhood, Four Plinths Sculpture Project, Wellington Waterfront, 2009-10; The incompleteness theorem, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2008; actron and reactron, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, 2007.


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Author Notes: This luscious, creamy dessert has its roots in the ubiquitous cherry cream cheese pie that was a feature of every church pot luck dinner and every post-funeral lunch of my childhood. Lime juice brightens it up, raspberries give it zing, and a patriotic topping theme makes it suitable for the holiday! —Kayb
Serves: 12
8-oz packages cream cheese, room temp
15-oz. cans condensed milk
cup fresh lime juice
pints raspberries
cup blueberries
cup heavy whipping cream
cup plus 2 tbsp. sugar, divided
1 1/2
cups vanilla wafer or graham cracker crumbs
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine cream cheese and lime juice, and beat until smooth and creamy.
- Add condensed milk in a slow stream while mixer is running. Continue to beat until well blended.
- Add 1 pint of the raspberries. Beat until they're blended in to the filling.
- Mix vanilla wafer crumbs and 1/3 cup sugar with your fingers in the bottom of an 8 x 12 baking dish.
- Melt butter and drizzle over crumbs. Mix with your fingers until combined, and press crumbs into an even layer in bottom of dish.
- Spread filling over the top of crumbs, and smooth out the top. Arrange blueberries to make the flag canton, and use raspberries to make the stripes.
- Beat whipping cream with 2 tbsp. sugar until stiff. Use a pastry bag or a zip-loc with a corner snipped off to pipe "stars" atop the blueberries, and fill in between the raspberry "stripes."
- Chill for at least four hours.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Raspberries
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